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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Useni Eugene Perkins
Useni Eugene Perkins
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| Other authors / contributors: | Perkins, Useni Eugene, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 March 10.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Poet and youth worker Useni Eugene Perkins was born in Chicago on September 12, 1932 to sculptor Marion Perkins. His early exposure to the arts led to an interest in writing. Perkins earned his B.S. from George Williams College in 1963 and went on to work at the Henry Horner Chicago Boys Club. After earning his M.S. in 1966, Perkins ran the Better Boys Foundation of Chicago, working with community and educational development for troubled youth. Perkins later worked as a consultant and began writing poetry and plays. He became social director for the Chicago Urban League in 1986. In 1988, he moved to Oregon to become CEO of the Urban League of Portland. He returned to Chicago in 1990 as interim president of the DuSable Museum of African American History. Perkins established the Association for the Positive Development of African American Youth and became project director at Chicago State University's Family Life Center.
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